Whether or not poker is a sport, it is entertainment.Perfect for ESPN.”I think it’s a sport and an entertainment,” said Scott Hanley, ESPN’s senior director of programming. “That’s what we do. It’s our name: the entertainment and sports programming network. That’s how we try to show it.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Bust by bust, the crowd of poker players eyeing the $8.25 million jackpot inched closer Thursday to the lucky group guaranteed to walk away winners at the 2007 World Series of Poker main event.

Gimme Credit, coming off an open-length victory in a seven-furlong stakes June 17 for trainer Tim Hills, returns in Saturday’s $100,000-added Poker Handicap (gr. IIIT) at one mile on the Belmont Park turf.

1,303 players returned to the Amazon Room at the Rio for Day 2B of the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, with some of poker’s biggest names in the field. Former World Champions Chris Ferguson, Brad Daugherty, Carlos Mortensen…

Day Three will have a combined starting field of 797 players, with this year’s Main Event paying 621 players. Six former WSOP Champions will start today: Carlos Mortensen, Scotty Nguyen, Huck Seed, Robert Varkonyi, Chris Ferguson…

PokerStars has announced that the World Championship Of Online Poker, the largest online series in the poker world, will return for its sixth edition this September. WCOOP VI offers 23 tournaments spread out over 17 days, from September…